Re: Should /nonexistent home dir actually exist?
From: Andrew Boothman (andrew_at_cream.org)
Date: 01/18/04
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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 21:42:21 +0000 To: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com
George Hartzell wrote:
> I just noticed
>
> a) that several accounts (from ports stuff, it seems) on a -stable
> system use /nonexistent as their home directory
>
> (ghost)[9:50am]log>>grep nonexist /etc/passwd
> pop:*:68:6:Post Office Owner:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
> www:*:80:80:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
> nobody:*:65534:65534:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
> gdm:*:92:92:GNOME Display Manager:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
> dnslog:*:1002:1002:DJBdns Logger:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
> dnscache:*:1003:1003:DJBdns Cache owner:/nonexistent:/sbin/nlogin
> stunnel:*:1004:1004:stunnel Daemon:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
> cyrus:*:60:60:the cyrus mail server:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
> ldap:*:389:389:OpenLDAP Server:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
>
> and
>
> b) that it seems to exist....
>
> (ghost)[9:50am]log>>ls -la /nonexistent/
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp ftp 512 Jun 1 2003 .
> drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 512 Jan 15 12:07 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dnslog dnslog 771 Jun 1 2003 .cshrc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dnslog dnslog 255 Jun 1 2003 .login
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dnslog dnslog 165 Jun 1 2003 .login_conf
> -rw------- 1 dnslog dnslog 371 Jun 1 2003 .mail_aliases
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dnslog dnslog 331 Jun 1 2003 .mailrc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dnslog dnslog 801 Jun 1 2003 .profile
> -rw------- 1 dnslog dnslog 276 Jun 1 2003 .rhosts
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dnslog dnslog 852 Jun 1 2003 .shrc
>
> The name suggests that it shouldn't actually exist, presumably as a
> security measure.
>
> Should I leave it as is, blow away the /nonexistent homedir, is it a
> ports problem, or ???
/nonexistent is not supposed to exist.
Perhaps you added the dnslog user using adduser(8) and so the home
directory was created?
Andrew
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